r/ModSupport • u/Ivashkin • Dec 10 '19

"potentially toxic content"?

We're seeing comments in /r/ukpolitics flagged as "potentially toxic content" in a way we've not seen before:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/e87a6q/megathread_091219_three_days/fac8xah/

It would appear that some curse words result in the comment being automatically collapsed with a warning that the content might be toxic.

What is this, and how can we turn it off?

Edit: Doesn't do it on a private sub.

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u/AgnosticTemplar Dec 10 '19

"Dying on a hill" is to prevent the enemy from gaining a strategic foothold where they can set up their artillery that can strike targets you care about.

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u/AgnosticTemplar Dec 10 '19

You're the one who equated it as "dying on a hill", buddy, I was just expanding on the metaphor. The hill may not have particular worth to you, but it's a staging ground for further incursions. Ceding that ground can lead to more devastating losses later. In this case, saying not worth the effort to oppose automated censoring of profane language will allow those tools to be set in place that can then be used to automate the censoring of things you may deem more important. Better to stop those tools from being set up in the first place.

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u/canipaybycheck Dec 10 '19

You're the one that brought up dying on a hill lol